<p>Dadofsam – Nothing like a crisp, dry Riesling to go with Spring salmon, young veggies, and 70-degree temps! 
Thanx, I’ll check out Freemark Abbey’s Rieslings. Yum.</p>
<p>Serve me up a big tall one. Really big. Really, really big.</p>
<p>Filed taxes yesterday. Submitted FAFSA last week. Sent off corrected Profiles and tax returns and IDOC today. Got home and daughter said she got an email that the IDOC instructions were incorrect.</p>
<p>AAAAAAAGGGGGGH.</p>
<p>But I checked, and I had completed one form for one college that isn’t necessary any more. In fact, the email told me we wouldn’t be penalized for having already sent it. Mighty big of them.</p>
<p>Mezzomom, you raise a good question. Do our bottles never become empty because they are only virtual bottles - or do they never become empty because of some druidic or other magical influence here at SA - or since they are but virtual bottles do they never become full in the first place?</p>
<p>Could a Druid get past that Klingon Warrior Chick stationed at the door…? :D</p>
<p>Ya know, if she’s been knocking back the Freemark Abbey, ya gotta wonder. Especially as I believe Druids have been known to a) become invisible b) ooze or something similar.</p>
<p>Klingon Warrior Chicks seek honor against pahtk Pilates ladies and piece-of-baktag Evilneighbors. Otherwise, everyone else gets in! Do not ask to borrow my funky, exotic-looking sword thingie! </p>
<p>When the Norse Religious Traditionalists were in here the other night, I heard them telling these jokes:</p>
<p>How many Druid’s does it take to change a lightbulb?
501. One to change the bulb and 500 to align the new stone. :)</p>
<p>How many Witches does it take to change a light bulb?
Into what? :)</p>
<p>How many Shamans does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They just change shape into a cat or bat and can see in the dark. :)</p>
<p>How many Freemasons does it take to change a lightbulb? After much research this tricky question can now be answered. It takes 20, as follows:</p>
<p>2 to complain that the light doesn’t work.
1 to pass the problem to either another committee, the Temple Board or the Master of the Lodge.
3 to do a study on light in the Lodge.
2 to check out the types of lights the Knights of Columbus use.
3 to argue about it.
5 to plan a fund-raising dinner to raise money for the bulb.
2 to complain that “that’s not the way we did it before.”
1 to borrow a ladder, donate the bulb and install it.
1 to order the brass memorial plate and have it inscribed. :)</p>
<p>And, finally…
How many Sinner’s Alley regulars does it take to change a lightbulb?
7. One to hold the bulb, and 6 to drink until the room spins. :D</p>
<p>Legs up the wall! 
Got the whirrlies…</p>
<p>Just got back from the cellars of Sinner’s Alley, a cobweb covered case of unkown vintage is waiting to be cracked open on the counter. </p>
<p>Dadofsam, on one of the cave walls there is a crude drawing of an enormous bottle, surrounded by dancing stick figures, I guess Sinner’s Alley has been around longer than we realized ;)</p>
<p>SBMom: I got past her, so a druid should have it easy.</p>
<p>I just want to see her cream a pahtk Pilates Lady!!</p>
<p>BHappyMom, we must know. In the cellar, were any stick figures doing Pilates? I think not…</p>
<p>Alumother, they were already pared down to just their core…
however there were a few suspect characters trying to remove the cork from the bottle with their spears…</p>
<p>Personally, I favor the Venus of Willendorfs, and I don’t think they do Pilates either (it’s difficult without feet…:eek: )</p>
<p>Okay, so I had to search a dozen weird language websites, e.g. *"Venus av Willendorfs ekstreme kvinnelige former har gitt opphav til teorier omhvilken funksjon figuren kan ha hatt. Hva g</p>
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Venus av Willendorfs ekstreme kvinnelige former har gitt opphav til teorier omhvilken funksjon figuren kan ha hatt. Hva g</p>
<p>Well, one theory regarding the Willendorf Venuses is tha they were religious items, invoking a Mother Goddess, symbol of fertility, etc. Another theory, perhaps not scientifically held, is that they were the Stone Age equivalent of Playboy Magazine:)</p>
<p>Thanks for that translation, TYG. I made a half-a$$ed attempt to translate it from Icelandic, then I got distracted by the review of Antonio Banderas in the Viking movie. :p</p>
<p>My theory on the Venuses is that they were tiny Weight Watcher totems that Stone Age women received when they lost 10 percent of their body weight and had only 250 more to go. Did someone say that we have these things in the cellar? Perhaps, we should hire an exterminator. </p>
<p>TGIF! :)</p>
<p>If you look at the Venuses closely, they do appear to be mutant sluggs, attempting to become Anna Nicole Smith. Slugg, did you have more to do with this than you are letting on?</p>
<p>I’m trying to imagine a young Hugh Hefner sitting around the cave in his fur bathrobe carving out little Venuses surrounded by his Stone Age bunnies, Brandiopteryx, Barbiosaurus, and Terriodon.</p>
<p>Now that you mention it, Alu , modern day sluggs could have descended from this primitive mutant form. The chestoidal region seems to be heading in the right direction. This is going to require more alcohol-induced analysis.</p>
<p>Wow, send out a big tray of Olympic Gold martinis to the mob outside. The natives are restless in the Caf</p>
<p>Shamans? Reislings? Venus? Look what happens when I step away for a few!</p>
<p>Just returned from hosting a wine/cheese tasting for the law school. Fabulous time. Wednesday was another party, where I made my (almost) famous punch:</p>
<p>*1 bottle sparkling wine
*375 mL rum (preferably coconut)
*375 mL Hypnotiq (or make your own from vodka, cognac, and fruit juice)
*two 14 oz cans of diced pineapples - freeze the fruit to use as ice, and the juice goes in the punch. </p>
<p>Yeah, no one was walking too well that night. Walking tonight was somewhat minimal as well - finished about 50 bottles of wine (Reisling! Cotes de Rhone! Port! Beaujolais! Pinot Grigio! Pinot Noir! Syrah! Garnacha!) and a ton of cheese and chocolate. </p>
<p>Law school will be a nice way to recover from this nonsense and frivolity. :)</p>